153 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, snare through bars 8-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and snare through bars 29-32, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37 and 39, and 15 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 54 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 43 more.